Randomized gear is an older type of gear in Star Wars: The Old Republic that used to be the main way to gear up as you levelled in the game. This type of gear had a randomized first part of its name, and there were potentially up to 18 different names for the same set of gear, with the only variation being a slight difference in stats.
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Why is randomized gear uncommon now?
Randomized armor pieces used to be quite common as random drops across the planets in the game. In Update 4.0, the stats of the game were adjusted and many drops were changed so you would receive gear that is appropriate for your class and current level, and they stopped being quest rewards or drops from most enemies, so the ability to get them randomly in the world was retired. In Update 7.4.1, the GTN (the player run market) was updated in a way that made it impossible to easily list these randomly-generated armors, so the developers removed the ability to buy and sell them on the GTN all-together.
How can you tell if you have a randomized piece of gear?
The naming convention and stats of these armors are very interesting – you may find the same armor set with many different names, due to the way the armors were randomly generated when you picked them up. The easiest way to spot them is when you try them on in the preview window, or preview on another player with one on, and you roll over the item in the preview window, it will be labelled as “Unidentified” instead of showing you the name of the item like it would normally.
How are randomized gear pieces named?
The way the naming convention for these randomized items works is that the FIRST word in the armor piece usually refers to what type of stats it has, and in what level range it is. For example, a lower-level armor piece originally good for the Jedi Consular might start with the word “Hapani” or “Cinnagar” depending on its exact stat distribution. The second part of the name is what actual “set” it is from, as in what it looks like. For example, the “Happani Nerf-Herder’s Tunic” and the “Cinnagar Nerf-Herder’s Tunic” will look exactly the same, and just had a different stat distribution. These armors also have a different look on both factions, and come in a green-bordered and blue-bordered version, sometimes with the same name but different looks between the green and blue versions.
How can you get randomized gear?
However, some of the sets can still be found randomly in specific types of Treasure Hunting boxes, with specific level ranges being found in specific grades of Treasure Hunting boxes, so many of these strangely-named sets are not actually fully retired. If you like any of these older sets, an even more useful piece of information is that the developers made a new type of armor called Fitted Armor, where they took the looks of every single randomly-generated armor set, and applied it to a brand-new giant batch of armors introduced to the game in Update 7.4.1, which can be bought and sold on the GTN. This means, if you are trying to get one of these sets, find its matching set of Fitted armor and you may have a much easier time finding that on the GTN instead. Even better, the Fitted armors do not change the way they look between factions.
What is Fitted Gear?
Fitted gear is cosmetic-only gear with no stats attached that was introduced in the game in Update 7.1. Individual pieces drop from Heroics, and full sets drop as a boxed set from the Login Reward week called Ancient Armaments. Fitted armors are Binds on Equip to Legacy, which means as long as you have not already equipped them, they can be bought or sold on the GTN as a boxed set or individual pieces.
When the developers updated the GTN, one of the negative side effects was that many armors dropped randomly from enemies would no longer be available to buy or sell on the GTN, making them even harder to get than they were before. Many of them will look like other similar sets in the game, but might have a slightly different color or pattern, or may originally be from a strange source like retired crafting schematics. To make up for the missing outfits, the developers re-introduced them in the form of Fitted Armor outfits with new names, but old looks, which could be gotten as random drops from enemies, and then traded, sold on the GTN, found in Treasure Hunting crew skill boxes, or sold to a vendor for 100 credits. After you equip them, they become legacy-bound, so you can store them in your cargo hold or legacy bank, or send them to your other characters to store. There’s over 2,000 new Fitted armor pieces made up of old, mostly-retired looks.
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Thank you to all the players who helped me figure out how the naming conventions worked, and helped me dig through Treasure Hunting boxes!